Who’s trying to kill infamous private investigator Hell Trent? One of her nine lovers? The Mafia don? The billionaire? The international spy? Is it one of the myriad criminals she’s brought to justice? With the professional killers, corrupt politicians, and unsavory characters she’s crossed, the suspect list seems endless. In desperation, she turns to her mortal enemy for help. But is it too late?Disgraced ex-cop Matt Sinclair’s new private investigator career is dead on arrival. His boys’ college tuition is late, and his house is in foreclosure. Until the most hated woman in his life appears offering enough money to save him. While he detests everything about the pot-smoking, loud-mouthed degenerate, Hell Trent is the only one offering him a job. But is saving her life the right thing to do?
Janet began her writing career at age twelve with the sci-fi screenplay “The Sounds of Quazon” which consisted of about a paragraph in which two astronauts engaged in such titillating dialogue as: “Did you hear that?” “What was that?”
Janet’s next writing project was at nineteen when she co-wrote a play for a real estate company’s Christmas party. She was paid fifty dollars for her work and the clients were very happy.
Her true passion for writing ignited when she took a playwriting class at UC Santa Cruz in 1988. After achieving her Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts (with an emphasis in acting) in 1989, Janet initiated, developed and taught an after-school drama program at Pescadero High School and wrote in her spare time. After four years, she quit teaching to write full-time.
In 1999, after completing ten novels, Janet started writing a monthly humor column for CoastViews magazine, a job she held until the publication folded in 2013. In 2000, she sold her first reprint to Funny Times and her work continues to appear in the national humor magazine. For several years, Janet wrote an advice column called What Would Janet Do? for CoastViews, and wrote short romantic fiction for a commercial website under a pen name.
For seventeen years, she performed as Master of Ceremonies for The Pescadero Arts and Fun Festival. She lives in Northern California and has been married since the dawn of civilization to her husband, Frank. Her cat, Forrest, is her current writing partner, although most of the cat’s ideas seem to surround the consumption of tuna. In her spare time, Janet gardens and sculpts strange creatures out of polymer clay.
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